This book is the first collection to bring together scholars and activists working to end criminal and immigration detention. Employing an intersectional lens a

Through the stories of prisoners and their families, including her own family’s experiences, Maya Schenwar shows how the institution that locks up 2.3 million

This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.

Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for

"35,000 Americans are arrested every day, and the number of prisoners has increased 500% over the last three decades. Truthout Executive Director Maya Schenwar